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Garage Kids 2:
Aelita and the Code of Lyoko

The end of a beginning...

Chapter 3

Jeremie continued, feverishly, to clear up his connection with Lyoko, but the computer equipment continued to act up. Once or twice, he was sure he saw a spark show up where a power line connected to one of the computer monitors.

It didn't take long to realize what was happening. The computers were short-circuiting! But how!? Then, it hit him. X.A.N.A., he thought.

Ulrich looked around. The continuous approach of many Roachters was getting a little too overwhelming for him and his friends. If only I could help my friends, he thought. But he, too, was too busy fighting the little monsters. Why can't I just be in three places at once!?

Concentrating hard, in frustration, wishing he could be, he opened his eyes to see... two Ulrichs standing on either side of him!!!

"Huh?" he wondered aloud.

Jeremie got a temporary clear connection, long enough to see what happened and tell him why. "Your new power," he said. "It's triplication! Those two Ulrich's are mindless drones that will do whatever you tell them to. They can either be decoys or extra fighters."
"So, looks like I can be in three places at once," he said to himself. He turned to the one clone. "You! Help Odd!" To the other, "You! Help Yumi and Aelita!"

The clones wordlessly nodded and got to work.

Yumi held her fan, a model made of red, glowing "0"s and "1"s, slashing every Roachter that attacked, and used it as a shield, when one would fire. She was trying her best to fight them off, protecting Aelita, but they were coming in too fast!

Suddenly, Ulrich arrived! He pulled out his sword and slashed away at all the monsters that approached. Yumi and Aelita enthusiastically gave their savior their thanks. "Nice work, Ulrich," Yumi said. "You saved us," Aelita added.

Ulrich appeared not to have heard them, but continued fighting. "Ulrich?" asked Yumi, worriedly.

"Hey, Yumi! Over here!"

Another Ulrich took the time to wave, before going back to fighting. Both girls looked over in Odd's direction to see another one helping him.

"This looks like Triplication, to me," said Aelita.

"Must be Ulrich's new power," Yumi figured, as she helped the Ulrich clone fight.

"LASER ARROW!" Odd yelled! He killed another monster. "LASER ARROW!" Another monster. Odd and the Ulrich clone were doing so well, it was only down to two Roachters. Odd was so caught up in the moment, he nearly forgot about his psychic vision. Anyone who saw him right now would know, for sure, that he was going to do just fine as Lyokian warrior.

Odd swayed back and forth, facing one Roachter. The tiny stick legs of the beast tappy-tap-tapped along, so that the Roachter could follow his movements. Odd smirked, as he waved in a bring-it-on fashion. "Come on, I'm waiting!" He held out his arm and hit it with his other hand to shoot another arrow. Nothing happened. Shocked, he cried, "I don't believe it!" He hit his arm repeated times, hoping his arrow supply was just temporarily jammed... but he soon realized the hard truth: "I'm out of arrows!"

As if taking advantage of Odd's predicament, the Roachter fired a shot that hit square in Odd's chest, knocking his current life point count to "0". As he fell backwards, he came to the shocking realization that this was his vision! While vanishing, he had the sensation of being surrounded by blinding light.

A set of doors slid open in front of him, just as the light went away. Odd grabbed the sides of the doorframe, stuck his head out, and panted out of exhaustion and shock. Instantly, he noticed where he was. He was back in the scanner at the factory!
"ODD!" Ulrich, Yumi, and Aelita cried.
On one of the computer monitors, his Digital Card flipped on screen, then shrank to nothing, to signal that he was dead.

"ODD!" Jeremie cried at the exact same time as the others.

Odd ran from the scanners, down towards the direction of the computer room, as fast as he could… which wasn't very fast considering that the de-virtualization left him exhausted!
More Roachters had come. Ulrich, whose clones had just been deleted, and Yumi drove them back as best as they could. The large crowd of monsters was backed up to the edge of the island. One false step could've landed them a one-way trip down into the vast emptiness Aelita called the "digital void", where they'd be blown to loose data.

Aelita walked up. "Wait, I have an idea!" She took a few steps toward the group of X.A.N.A. minions.

On one of the monitors, her Digital Card came up on the left, a Roachter Digital Card to the right, separated by "VS."

"Aelita, no!" cried Jeremie. "You can't fight X.A.N.A.'s monsters, remember?"

"But, there's something I can do," she said. She placed her hands up to her forehead, concentrating on the ground below the Roachters. When she opened up her mouth, beautiful music poured out.

Suddenly, the ground shook! A large crack appeared at the edge of the island, which slithered along, around the group of Roachters, and the ground gave way. A couple of the ones at the edge of the crack, managed to jump on solid ground, but most fell, with the cracked rock, into the void.

Jeremie cheered, along with his friends, as he kept his struggle to hold his link with Lyoko.

"What's going on with the computers?" asked a familiar voice.

Jeremie answered, without thinking, "No doubt it's X.A.N.A. He's trying to short circuit the equipment, so I loose my connection with Lyoko." Then, the realization of whom he was talking to sank into his head, and he turned around to see a pleasant surprise. "Odd!?" he cried, happily, glad to see his new friend was OK.

"The one and only," he said with a grin.

The three in Lyoko cheered when they heard their friend was OK, and then got back to work. Yumi threw her fan, killing off another Roachter.

"Guys," they heard Jeremie cry. "Get Aelita to the tower now! It's only a matter of time before I completely loose my connection with Lyoko!"

"But, the job's still not done yet with these monsters," Ulrich told him.

"I'm going back in," said Odd. "Maybe a re-virtualization will reload my arrows."

But as he headed for the stairs, Jeremie held him back, warning, "No, Odd! De-virtualization takes away so much energy that, if these readings are correct, an immediate re-virtualization would be a shock enough to kill you!"

"How long do I have to wait?"

"Pretty long."

Odd stayed put, thinking, but there must be some way to help. He thought for a moment. Then, a flashback came into his head: a strange shadow monster flew from Jeremie's computer, and he fell over, backwards, off the roof… Yumi ran to the edge… Jeremie floated back up, as if controlled by her eyes…

Odd grabbed a microphone and cried, "Yumi! You can move things with your mind! Use your power!"

"Of course!" she thought to herself. She turned her attention to a few tall boulders, and then said to Aelita, "Head for the tower!" As Aelita shot off, Yumi concentrated on the boulders and put her hands to her forehead. "TELEKINESES!" A red glow came over her as the boulders picked themselves up and formed a fortress-like wall between Aelita with the tower and the Roachters trying to stop her.
Jeremie gave his new friend the thumb's-up. "Good thinking, Odd!"

"What can I say?" he asked smugly. "I'm a regular Einstein."

Jeremie frowned. "Don't push it."

OK, all three have used their powers in Lyoko, Odd's been devirtualized, Jeremie continues to have computer trouble which he now realizes is being caused by their new computer-based enemy, and Aelita's even closer to the tower.

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